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Gore, one of the country’s most high-profile advocates of measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, compared this week's massive storm to 2010 floods that devastated Nashville, Tenn.

“For me, the Nashville flood was a milestone,” he said. “For many, Hurricane Sandy may prove to be a similar event: a time when the climate crisis — which is often sequestered to the far reaches of our everyday awareness became a reality.”

“Scientists tell us that by continually dumping 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every single day, we are altering the environment in which all storms develop. As the oceans and atmosphere continue to warm, storms are becoming more energetic and powerful. Hurricane Sandy, and the Nashville flood, were reminders of just that,” he said.

Activists have criticized President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney for rarely mentioning climate change on the campaign trail. But, in the aftermath of Sandy, some politicians have begun connecting the storm to climate change.

“We have a 100-year flood every two years now,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters Tuesday. “We have a new reality when it comes to these weather patterns. We have an old infrastructure and we have old systems and that is not a good combination.”

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg added: “What is clear is that the storms that we’ve experienced in the last year or so around this country and around the world are much more severe than before. Whether that’s global warming or what, I don’t know. But we’ll have to address those issues.”

Meanwhile, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Monday: “There’s a clear link to climate change. And, yet, for the first time in over a quarter century, climate change was not brought up even once at the presidential debates.”

This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 2:14 p.m. on October 30, 2012.

Gore, shut up. There have been big storms all throughut history. This is just another one. Given the right set of circumstances it can happen any time, and it has when there were NO greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere by men, because there were no men. Sheesh. What a spotlight hog.

REAL scientists seem to be abandoning the whole global warming crap-a-roo. In fact, one of the top global warming people in the world who actually have a DEGREE in some kind of science, said about 4 months ago. "Hell, I'm only human. I can make mistakes just like anyone else. And on Global Warming, I was mistaken."

Another thing Global warming zealots never answer, is why is it they don't go ranting and raving at volcanos about THEIR emissions. Mt. St. Helens was, on a geoclimatic scale, not much more than a burp, however, it released more toxins, green house gasses, and particulate pollutants in that one big eruption, than mankind has in his ENTIRE industrial history.

REAL scientists seem to be abandoning the whole global warming crap-a-roo. In fact, one of the top global warming people in the world who actually have a DEGREE in some kind of science, said about 4 months ago. "Hell, I'm only human. I can make mistakes just like anyone else. And on Global Warming, I was mistaken."

Another thing Global warming zealots never answer, is why is it they don't go ranting and raving at volcanos about THEIR emissions. Mt. St. Helens was, on a geoclimatic scale, not much more than a burp, however, it released more toxins, green house gasses, and particulate pollutants in that one big eruption, than mankind has in his ENTIRE industrial history.

What an Idiot, yet people still listen to this tripe.. Al take your meds and relax - the boggy man is still under your bed. Look at history 1850's 1940's and get a understanding of how tides affect flooding...

I wish we could take Gore out of the equation and focus on facts and science.

After so many years of Limbaugh, Drudge and Fox News climate fact twisting, my fellow conservative Americans would rather see Al Gore proved wrong than embrace the thousands of scientists that have been saying the same thing for decades.

Yes, I'm one of those that believe the thousands of scientists instead of the few handpicked science deniers who appear on right wing talk shows. .... Oh no!

And no, it's not a religion, it's science. Yes, there were bad storms in the past (a favorite rebuttal of commenters here), but if you dare look at facts, you'll see that disasters are happening a more often year after year.

Don't believe me? Just look at the number of hurricanes over the last 100 years and count the number that have occurred over the last 10.

So forget about your "Al Gore" hang ups and read the f'ing headlines, because climate change is no joke.